Dreams for Sale (2012)

Original title

夢売るふたり

Directed by

Miwa Nishikawa

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

M

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A husband and wife run a small restaurant but fall into debt. They start a scam to sell fake dreams to other people, which strains their marriage and their morals.

darkly comicsuspensefulbittersweetquietly tenseemotionally complexcharacter-drivenslow-burn

What happens

Dreams for Sale (夢売るふたり, Yume Uru Futari) is a 2012 Japanese comedy film, directed and written by Miwa Nishikawa. The film stars Sadao Abe, Takako Matsu as the husband and wife, with Teruyuki Kagawa Tamae Ando, Sawa Suzuki, Kana Kurashina, Tae Kimura, Yusuke Iseya, Katsuya Kobayashi, Rena Tanaka, Kyôsuke Yabe, Shōfukutei Tsurube II, Teruyuki Kagawa and Takako Matsu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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